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Gnash 0.8.8 Has VA-API, Claims 100% YouTube Compatibility

08-23-2010, 11:30 AM

Phoronix: Gnash 0.8.8 Has VA-API, Claims 100% YouTube Compatibility

As of late the open-source Lightspark Flash Player has been making great progress with features like a LLVM-using JIT engine, out-of-process plug-in support for Firefox, and rendering improvements, the Gnash project that's partially supported by the Free Software Foundation continues to advance too...

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I'm not sure if this is a good or a bad thing... At worst if opensource Flash gets too good, Adobe might abandon Linux for good and people like me who use Flash for more than just video playback would have to use Wine and Windows version of Adobe Flash instead. >.<

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I'm not sure if this is a good or a bad thing... At worst if opensource Flash gets too good, Adobe might abandon Linux for good and people like me who use Flash for more than just video playback would have to use Wine and Windows version of Adobe Flash instead. >.<

I can't imagine the hell of the performance hit you get by doing this. It'as already a crap under windows, but with wine...